{"id":39673,"date":"2026-07-20T01:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/39673\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T01:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:04:22","slug":"sam-burns-didnt-have-his-day-at-british-open-finishing-3rd-behind-winner-ryan-fox-and-cameron-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/39673\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Burns Didn\u2019t Have His Day At British Open, Finishing 3rd Behind Winner Ryan Fox And Cameron Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SamBurns3_PGATour.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a golfer wearing a white polo with Mastercard logo on the collar and a white cap, looking focused.\" title=\"SamBurns3_PGATour\"\/><br \/>\nSam Burns led the British Open entering Sunday, but struggled early in the final round and finished 2-over par and in third. (PGA Tour photo).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam Burns just needed to make a remarkable putt or two and stay out of trouble. The first didn\u2019t happen, and the second did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Burns, the former LSU All-American golfer from Shreveport, lost his best chance for his first major victory after entering the final day of the British Open with a two-stroke lead on Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tigerrag.com\/lsu-former-golfer-sam-burns-ties-major-record-with-a-62-at-british-open\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After a brilliant major record tying 62 on Friday<\/a> and a 65 on Saturday, he shot a 2-over-72 Sunday to finish third at the Royal Birkdale golf club in Southport, England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just couldn\u2019t find them today,\u201d Burns, 29, said. \u201cJust didn\u2019t have my best stuff. Didn\u2019t have things go my way. I played a lot of great golf this week. Unfortunately, didn\u2019t have my best stuff today. Got off to a bad start, made a couple of mistakes early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan Fox, 39, of Auckland, New Zealand, holed a 12-foot birdie on 18 for the win at 10 under, beating Cameron Young, 29, of Scarborough, New York. Young, who went to Wake Forest, shot a 6-under 64 and was in the clubhouse for two hours with the lead, waiting for the others to finish so he would win or make a playoff. Neither happened as he finished second at 9 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRyan played amazing,\u201d Burns said. \u201cHe\u2019s a well-earned champion. Hats off to him. He did what he needed to do down the stretch. Ultimately, I just came up short today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burns suffered three straight bogeys on the front nine as he quickly lost the lead. Through 54 holes, he was at 10-under 200 on Saturday. Over his final 12 holes Sunday, he had zero birdies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was another case of not finishing for Burns, who had a chance to win the U.S. Open this year and in 2024 and led the Masters early this year before falling off.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the more you put yourself in this position, the better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Considering that Burns did not decide to play in this tournament until just a week ago, he fared extremely well. He had not planned to play as his wife Carolina was due to have their second baby last Tuesday. But daughter Belle came 11 days early on July 3, and Burns eventually decided to make the trip without practicing as much as normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGiven the circumstances, I\u2019m very pleased with the week,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to being home.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Burns led the British Open entering Sunday, but struggled early in the final round and finished 2-over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2635,685,5026,113,144,2177],"class_list":["post-39673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameron-young","tag-british-open","tag-cameron-young","tag-lsu-golf","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-pga-tour","tag-sam-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}